Charles & Beatrice Fagge
From Lacey Green History
Dr Charles Herbert Fagge was born in 1873, General Surgeon, died 1939
Beatrice Dora Metcalfe was born in Australia
Charles and Beatrice married 10th May 1899
Charles and Beatrice had 3 daughters & a son as follows :-
Beatrice Margery 'Peg' Fagge born
Charles Fagge born ? married Shelah, parents of Alistair Fagge. click 1955 A Year at Stocken Farm for by farm student Alistair.
Belle Fagge born ? married ? Grosse
Florence Fagge born ? married ? Yates
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In 1910 the Fagge family are recorded as tenants at Wimble End in Church Lane. Dr Fagge then purchased Malmsmead, then called Lavender Cottage, (click Kiln Farm for the full history of this property).
Report by Rosemary Mortham
Daphne Bristow's aunt worked for the Fagge's in Malmsmead, Kiln Lane.
Dr Fagge worked at Guys Hospital. When Daphne broke her arm, she went there to be treated for 13 weeks. She was very spoilt, because she had fair curly hair. Daphne remembers that the Fagge's employed a nurse for their children. She and her sister once went with them to the windmill, where they had tea.
21st July 1923. Dr Fagge sold Lavender Cottage to Martin Robert de Selincourt.
Charles & Beatrice built a weekend cottage in Slad Lane which they called 'Bulla Burra', aboriginal for 'beautiful bird'.
1939 Obituary of Charles Herbert Fagge MS FRCS
There was a long and comprehensive obituary, published in The British Medical Journal, detailing his remarkable career and the many notable positions he held and his considerable achievements. He wrote for a number of medical publications & was Editor of Guy's Hospital Gazette from 1897 to 1908. He left his wife, three daughters and a son.
Daughter Beatrice looked after her mother at Bulla Burra after her father had died, inheriting it in 1944.
Alistair Fagge Grandson. Extract from his year in Lacey Green as a student at Stocken Farm. For the full article click 1955 A Year at Stocken Farm
"The reason I had come to this farm, ninety miles from home, was that my grand-parents had a weekend bungalow, Bulla Burra, (Aboriginal for beautiful bird; my grandmother was Australian) in Slad Lane, just out of the village. They used to come down from London by train and were met at Saunderton Station and taken up the hill, via Bradenham, by horse and cart, past the house where Disraeli was born and on to Lacey Green.